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Title: GV flares
Post by: Shamrock on September 18, 2009, 03:21:04 PM
if a gv needs supplies or support, and doesnt have smoke, he could just shoot a flare
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Lusche on September 18, 2009, 03:22:35 PM
Might not be a bad idea.  :aok
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: AWwrgwy on September 18, 2009, 03:24:09 PM
R A D I O



wrongway
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Lusche on September 18, 2009, 03:41:59 PM
R A D I O



wrongway


Radio doesn't always help you much in a GV. Unlike in planes, you can't spot the talking player on map. And with our terrain and especially the rather crude maps, ground navigation and telling someone "I'm over here" doesn't work very good either.
Flare were used for various tactical reasons, and in my opinion they could add some more flair (pun intended ;) ) to the battlefield.
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Rino on September 18, 2009, 04:03:33 PM

Radio doesn't always help you much in a GV. Unlike in planes, you can't spot the talking player on map. And with our terrain and especially the rather crude maps, ground navigation and telling someone "I'm over here" doesn't work very good either.
Flare were used for various tactical reasons, and in my opinion they could add some more flair (pun intended ;) ) to the battlefield.
 

Oh please, probably 80% of the time they are right at the spawn, the town or the field.
It's not all THAT hard to help a score monkey.
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Lusche on September 18, 2009, 04:08:40 PM
 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: guncrasher on September 18, 2009, 05:36:26 PM
wonder who would be the first plane to be shot down by a flare.

semp
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Rino on September 18, 2009, 05:41:01 PM
     The bad guy flying too close to James Bond  :D
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: E25280 on September 18, 2009, 06:21:09 PM
Interesting idea.

+1
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Nemisis on September 18, 2009, 07:11:03 PM

Radio doesn't always help you much in a GV. Unlike in planes, you can't spot the talking player on map. And with our terrain and especially the rather crude maps, ground navigation and telling someone "I'm over here" doesn't work very good either.
Flare were used for various tactical reasons, and in my opinion they could add some more flair (pun intended ;) ) to the battlefield.

Agreed. I'm always running outa ammo, and then having to quit. If a plane could fly over and drop supps, then you get more kills, you get to spend less time driving, and more time playing, and the pilot gets a few perks.

Rino, I'd say more like 50%. In a GV fight, one side has to have moved.

Guncrasher, IDK. But I know who will get the kill

System: Nemisis has shot you down.

*checks my score*

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Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: guncrasher on September 19, 2009, 02:37:02 AM
ok so what color should the flair be and should it have a parachute. and if nobody brings you supplies when you use the radio, what makes you think they will if you shoot a flair?  seen land of the dead? not even the zombies pay attentions to them.

semp
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: A.F. Crash, Fire, Rescue on September 19, 2009, 09:50:22 AM
Yeah sure, make your self a known target to the enemies, then they'll know who's in trouble and go straight for ya. Then again, you could BS them and lead them straight into a trap.
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: RipChord929 on September 19, 2009, 09:55:36 AM
Generally, signal flares have no parachutes, illumination flares do...
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: waystin2 on September 19, 2009, 10:44:35 AM
+1
Title: Re: GV flares
Post by: Nemisis on September 19, 2009, 11:36:41 AM
ok so what color should the flair be and should it have a parachute. and if nobody brings you supplies when you use the radio, what makes you think they will if you shoot a flair?  seen land of the dead? not even the zombies pay attentions to them.

I vote we have red flares as green would blend in more. Think, we almost no color variation, and therefor red will be good almost always. It should be brighter at night in TT too.

Yeah sure, make your self a known target to the enemies, then they'll know who's in trouble and go straight for ya. Then again, you could BS them and lead them straight into a trap.

Well flares wouldn't have any set meaning anymore than do smoke shells. It pretty much up to the people in your area. If you use it to show AC where targets are then thats what you do, if you use it to show where to drop supps then the people in your area use it like that or change it. I, personally would set up an ambush with them like you said. Say a lot of people are outa ammo, they charge, then they die.